NATO was afraid of a Soviet invasion. They knew in a ground war, the Soviets would take several countries.
So countries created “stay-behind” teams to coordinate resistance in the aftermath of an occupation.
The problem is these teams had nothing to do. So they “made themselves busy” by bothering domestic groups they thought were pro-communist.
It was a big problem in Italy.
These guys have titles like “Director of Global Resilience.” Their job is to keep operations up and running in a catastrophe.
But there was no catastrophe (yet). So they kept themselves busy.
NATO was afraid of a Soviet invasion. They knew in a ground war, the Soviets would take several countries.
So countries created “stay-behind” teams to coordinate resistance in the aftermath of an occupation.
The problem is these teams had nothing to do. So they “made themselves busy” by bothering domestic groups they thought were pro-communist.
It was a big problem in Italy.
These guys have titles like “Director of Global Resilience.” Their job is to keep operations up and running in a catastrophe.
But there was no catastrophe (yet). So they kept themselves busy.